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Ladies, Here Are Ten Things You Need To Stop Caring About Immediately

Ladies, here are ten things you should stop caring about immediately:

1). What the heck anyone thinks of you. I mean anyone — except for yourself and maybe your children, because in in your household all that should matter to you is that you can look in the mirror each day and without a doubt find something to be proud of with regard to the woman staring back at you. It’s also a bonus if your children are benefiting from the example you are setting.

2). What you put in your mouth. Like, serio...

The Viral Videos That Will Help You Survive Summer With Your Teens

Summer is coming and that means in a few short weeks, our teens will be underfoot all. summer. long.

Our grocery bills will skyrocket because our six-foot man children will be filling their hollow legs with snacks while playing endless rounds of Fortnite with their friends.

Our family rooms will become a wasteland of soda cans, discarded hoodies and summer reading books that won’t be picked up until three days before school starts. And we will never know exactly where the TV remote is at any...

My Husband Bought Me My 80s Dream Car And I Feel Sixteen Again

We all have that one object that tethers us to another place and time. Whether it’s a favorite college sweatshirt or a cherished book, the object helps us remember a time when afternoons were long and carefree and adult responsibilities were minimal. For some, the object or item may even represent at time when they were thinner, less wrinkled and obsessed with Jon Bon Jovi (I’m looking at you moms with bedazzled jeans jackets dating back to high school).

For me, it’s the movie Can’t Buy Me Lo...

This Is Why I Chose To Tell My Teen I Was Sexually Abused

It was a few months ago when I decided to tell my teenager something I wasn’t sure I ever would: as a child, I was sexually abused by a family member. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized this has happened to so many other women and I have strong feelings about speaking out on the subject. It came out one day while I was driving around with my son. I wasn’t expecting this conversation to happen; it wasn’t planned and as soon as I told him I was afraid it would put undo hurt on him, yet I didn’...

Grown and Flown Spring Style: Transitions Can Be Tricky

I always find dressing for the springtime a little tricky. While I love shedding my sweatshirts and boots, my skin is still pale and sort of dry and then sometimes in a matter of minutes it goes from hot to cold and then back to hot. (Oh wait…is that the weather or just me?)

In the last post, Pam raved about this great Vince Bomber Jacket to help layer for the spring weather, but I prefer to throw on a long cardigan – it’s cozy and makes me feel long and lean. This classic cashmere cardigan i...

6 Things Every College Bound Junior Should Be Doing Right Now

In addition to planning for junior prom and learning to parallel park, college bound high school juniors should be doing these six things right now:

1).Visit your guidance counselor and review your senior year courses.

If your senior schedule is packed with easy electives, lacks a fourth year of foreign language or math, or allows you to get out of school early so you can maximize your screen time, you need to make some changes. Colleges are most interested in these two things: rigor and grad...

This Is Why I’m Not Tracking My Teens

I’m on the cusp of so many things involving my kids I can taste my anxiety. Next year my oldest will start driving, my youngest will say goodbye to elementary school, my daughter will be in her last year of middle school and about to enter into the land of high school and sharing hallways with 17- year-olds.

It smells like teen spirit up in here and the temptations are pressures are only getting get more tempting for them, and in turn, making us all feel more pressure. There are ways for me t...

Grown and Flown Wins Iris Award for Best Group Blog

We won!!!

Grown and Flown won the 2018 Iris Award for Best Group Blog on Friday night, May 4, in Pasadena, California. This is the culminating event of the annual Mom 2.0 Summit and is a recognition of writers and sites, all in the digital parenting space, in fifteen categories.

To say that we are thrilled is a huge understatement. We are so excited that this award recognizes ALL of the hundreds of writers on Grown and Flown, many of whom are also members of our amazing Grown and Flown Parent...

Here are the 7 Things Parents of Teens are Tired of Hearing

I know it’s pretty easy for parents of teens to watch while social media captures all the things our kids are doing, both good and bad. But I think we can all admit we are missing some balance here. The focus falls heavily on the bad. In fact, “The Tide Pod Challenge” has gotten some long-lasting attention and brought quite a bit of controversy as older generations claimed maybe they also did some careless things, but of course they never did anything thing as stupid as that.

Meanwhile there...

The Easy Part of Parenting Is Giving Birth

“OMG! You’re going to be a MOMMA?”

It wasn’t an OMG, now what are you going to do? which would surely have been how I’d have responded to my own daughter under the same circumstances. Most probably followed by, “And, don’t think for a minute that I’m going to help raise your child.”

Instead, it was an OMG, I am SO excited that you’re going to have a BABY!

And I meant every word of it. But, of course, Liza is not my child. So it was oh, so much easier to be charitable about her condition.

Liza...